As if there wasn’t enough wrong with Justice Sotomayor, now we learn she is against the Second Amendment:
Just six months after Heller, however, Sotomayor issued an opinion in Maloney v. Cuomo that the protections of the Second Amendment do not apply to the states, and that if your city or state wants to ban all guns, then they have the right to disarm you. Such an opinion seems to fly directly in the face of Heller, exposing Sotomayor as an anti-gun radical who will affirm full-on gun prohibitions and believes that you have no right to own a firearm, even for the most basic right of defending your family in your own home.
Maloney has now been appealed to the Supreme Court, which will hear the case on June 26. If confirmed, Sotomayor would almost certainly have to recuse herself from Maloney, but her views that made her such an attractive candidate to an anti-gun president would be involved in deciding similar cases appealed to the court.
While at the Joyce Foundation, Obama failed in the organization’s plot to corrupt Second Amendment legal scholarship and undermine the decision-making processes of the Supreme Court. Now president, only a concerted effort by America’s gun owners may keep an anti-gun activist judge from claiming a seat on the Court itself.
After Heller, the ever-changing candidate Obama affirmed the individualist view supported by a growing majority of Americans and sought to reassure America’s gun owners that he was not about to disarm them. By nominating an activist judge who holds a radically different view, Obama’s affirmation has proven to be yet another promise with a short shelf life.
Media pundits and Beltway insiders alike are predicting Sotomayor will be confirmed by the Senate and take her seat on the Supreme Court.
And of course it’s been called “suicide” to oppose her. Clearly, the woman has no respect for the Second Amendment. Considering that this was post Heller, I guess this also means she has little respect for precedent.
No doubt she “would put it differently.” (They always do.)
I’m feeling recklessly suicidal today, so I think maybe they should go ahead and oppose her — even though that might mean “death” for the Republican Party.
Huh? It was alive?
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Not to disagree…
But the Supreme Court chose, in the Heller decision, to not take the next step of incorporating it under the 14th and applying it to state actions. They could have, but they didn’t. They used DC’s unique status to restrict the ruling to Federal actions.
Which is a shame.
Sotomayor’s ruling, though, disrespects the plain intent of Heller “that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms.”
And she went further than the Ninth Circuit:
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=48718
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?We will uphold legislation if we can identify some reasonably conceived state of facts that could provide a rational basis for the legislative action. Legislative acts that do not interfere with fundamental rights ? carry with them a strong presumption of constitutionality,? the appeals court concluded. ?The Fourteenth Amendment,? she wrote, ?provides no relief.?
Sotomayor?s ruling ran to the left of even the reliably liberal San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which ruled in the April 2009 case Nordyke v. King that the Second Amendment did, in fact, apply to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment, heavily citing the Supreme Court in Heller.
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“that might mean “death” for the Republican Party. Huh? It was alive? ”
Technically no, it’s a zombie but since it only shoots itself in the foot and not in the head it keeps on shambling along.
I used to think it was cute, but we could REALLY use an actual opposition party right about now.
Pres. Obama won’t allow himself to be held to a promise, nor will he take the heat or responsibility for that broken promise.
One of his greatest talents is to let others take the action, and he can take the credit if it is successful, or shift the blame as necessary in case of failure.
HE lets Pelosi write the stimulus, he allows Clinton to make foreign policy, he’ll let Sotomayor make law. If they succeed on his behalf, he gets the credit, if they fail, they are all high-profile enough to take the blame. Not just these three, but most of his team, are personally ambitious enough to take action in order to make themselves important, in fact, the last thing they’ll do is admit that the president has any influence over them.
He’s brilliant at this game of human smoke-and-mirrors, and the press allows it to happen, as well.